HEADSUP: Alpha support is being retired in 7.0

[John-Mark Gurney]

Peter Jeremy wrote this message on Fri, May 19, 2006 at 21:15 +1000:
> >Well.. if you just count the problems with unaligned accesses etc
> >I wonder if SPARC64 fills that gap?  I just don't know enough about
> >SPARC64 here, mind you.
> 
> SPARC definitely requires aligned accesses.  I'm not sure what Sun
> did with the SPARC64.  The other option is to set the "alignment
> checking" bit on i386.

We also now have arm and ppc that help fill the aligned access
requirements..  And I've done a bit of work with arm to try to make
our IP stack more friendly to alignment required machines, and ethernet
cards that can't handle special alignment...

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